Saturday, June 4, 2016

While Vancouver continues
to morph before our very eyes, the DTES still holds fast as a kind of Ground
Zero, a place where the tactics of gentrification were forged and the strategies for community
resistance keep getting refined. Whether its Hollywood North set dec’s turning
local streets into a staging ground for the Marvel
Universe, Port Authority privateers pumping more tankers and container
traffic into the inner harbour or Robber Baron developers running rampant (on a
field of Panama green), flipping tiny parcels of former refuge into huge chunks
of change, the real owners, the people who put their lives on the line to build neighbourhood,
thankfully, keep getting in the way. The view corridors may be more exclusive
and the familiar landmarks harder to locate, but the big picture is still there
for all to see. People, the Planet, not Profits. Here’s a few images that try
and keep track of what’s really at stake.

I’m going to be
away most of this summer at a residency, putting together a new project and
these photos are kind of studies or sketches for some of the sculptural pieces that
I’ll be working on. Notes to myself, or maybe just postcards from home. Hope you’re all well, see you in the fall. xs

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My Name Is Scot and I work with text, video, performance and installation to consider issues of identity, agency and environment. I’ve exhibited across Canada, in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the United States and my work has been published in Geist, Front magazine, the Capilano Review, danDelion and Valeveil.